The Risky Road

Synopsis

Ida May Park started in the film business as a scriptwriter, but in 1917 Universal announced that Park would direct films with actress and producer Dorothy Phillips for the company’s Bluebird brand. Park’s films often had a strong female perspective and The Risky Road is no exception. The story of a country girl who comes to the city to work, but falls for a rich man and undeservedly gets a bad reputation, the film was marketed as “the drama every woman should see”. The surviving fragment, showing the despair of Phillips’s character, is a real cinematic gem that leaves one yearning for more material of the film to be discovered. In 2008, a tinted nitrate fragment, with Swedish intertitles at the opening of the second reel, was deposited at the Archival Film Collections of the Svenska Filminstitutet. From the fragment, a 35mm B&W duplicate negative was made, from which this print was struck using the tinting of the nitrate as color reference.

Main Cast

Dorothy Phillips

Marjorie Helmer

Age : 90 | Popularity : 4%

William Stowell

Melville Kingston

Age : 34 | Popularity : 5%

Juanita Hansen

Lottie Bangor

Age : 66 | Popularity : 3%

Claire Du Brey

Mrs. Miles Kingston

Age : 100 | Popularity : 7%

George Chesebro

Robert Grant (as George Cheseboro)

Age : 70 | Popularity : 3%

Edward Cecil

Miles Kingston

Age : 62 | Popularity : 3%

Joseph W. Girard

Van Belt (as Joseph Girard)

Age : 78 | Popularity : 3%

Sally Starr

Myrtle

Age : 87 | Popularity : 3%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Ida May Park
Writing	Writer	Ida May Park
	Story	Katherine Leiser Robbins
Department	Role	Name

Join the discussion